Willy the Coyote - Anyone who thinks Dan won that fight is delusional. He was outclassed on the feet, and his biggest accomplishment was sitting in Lyoto's guard for a couple of minutes. Lyoto landed more significant strikes, showed far superior footwork, and did more damage on the ground in 5 seconds than Dan did in two minutes.

Unbelievably close fight - both from my perspective watching the fight and fightmetrics.

When you look at fight metric from a round by round perspectic to score the fight (as opposed to looking at the total strikes) - it gets even more difficult to judge.

Lyoto has amazing footwork - but amazing footwork alone does not win fights. This isn't a Zumba competition. Having amazing footwork only means something when it puts you in striking range when you want to strike and out of striking range when you're playing defense.

I'm a fan of both Lyoto and Dan (probably moreso the former), but Lyoto basically Frankie Edgar'ed his way to a decision.

When Dan did look clumsy at times - he was undeniably the aggressor trying to bring the fight to Lyoto.

For all the advances and opportunities Dan gave Lyoto to counter-strike - he capitalized very rarely.

Ultimately this will be one of those fights which will remain very controversial for a long time.

At some point aggression needs to play a bigger role in scoring a fight. I would have given the fight to Dan. It was close for sure but when in doubt I'd always give it to the fighter who actually wants to fight.

Bentleysuper8 - At some point aggression needs to play a bigger role in scoring a fight. I would have given the fight to Dan. It was close for sure but when in doubt I'd always give it to the fighter who actually wants to fight.

Yes, lets totally reward fighters for walking forward even if you are not doing any damage or being more effective. Lets punish all the fighters who like to counterstrike by making the scoring biased towards certain styles.

/sarcasm

Its called "effective aggression" for a reason. Dan was not being effective. Same reason we all know Leonard Garcia didn't really win many of his decision wins. Now the judges get it right and you're crying because its Henderson.

Bentleysuper8 - At some point aggression needs to play a bigger role in scoring a fight. I would have given the fight to Dan. It was close for sure but when in doubt I'd always give it to the fighter who actually wants to fight.

Yes, lets totally reward fighters for walking forward even if you are not doing any damage or being more effective. Lets punish all the fighters who like to counterstrike by making the scoring biased towards certain styles.

/sarcasm

Its called "effective aggression" for a reason. Dan was not being effective. Same reason we all know Leonard Garcia didn't really win many of his decision wins. Now the judges get it right and you're crying because its Henderson.

I don't always agree with you but I have to here. As much as I wanted Dan to win for the sake of him getting a shot at the title before he retires. Machida won that, sucks it wasn't as exciting as most expected but that's how Things go sometimes.

Dan couldn't be more aggressive because machida was already connecting on counters and hard knees/ kicks everytime he waded in.

Dan did not look that good and I don't think I'd want to see him against JBJ.

Machida is still the only person I believe has a shot currently at LHW and he only wins if he doesn't get taken down.

Bentleysuper8 - At some point aggression needs to play a bigger role in scoring a fight. I would have given the fight to Dan. It was close for sure but when in doubt I'd always give it to the fighter who actually wants to fight.

Yes, lets totally reward fighters for walking forward even if you are not doing any damage or being more effective. Lets punish all the fighters who like to counterstrike by making the scoring biased towards certain styles.

/sarcasm

Its called "effective aggression" for a reason. Dan was not being effective. Same reason we all know Leonard Garcia didn't really win many of his decision wins. Now the judges get it right and you're crying because its Henderson.

I don't always agree with you but I have to here. As much as I wanted Dan to win for the sake of him getting a shot at the title before he retires. Machida won that, sucks it wasn't as exciting as most expected but that's how Things go sometimes.

Dan couldn't be more aggressive because machida was already connecting on counters and hard knees/ kicks everytime he waded in.

Dan did not look that good and I don't think I'd want to see him against JBJ.

Machida is still the only person I believe has a shot currently at LHW and he only wins if he doesn't get taken down.

KingstonHawkeJr - Actually, I love the way Machida fights. Reminds me of Mayweather. When Hendo was aggressive he was getting picked apart. Only reason it got boring late is because Hendo stopped coming forward. He made it a boring fight, and lost in the process. He should be happy though, at least now he get's to avoid the massacre that was going to take place if he fought Jon Jones.

So Hendo made it a boring fight by not coming forward anymore, even though Machida ran away most of the fight? Talk about delusional. There's definitely an argument Machida won, but if either of them had a bigger hand in making it a boring fight, it was Machida. Don't be blinded by bias.

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